Raynor VliegendhartMar 14
Heidi Li Feldman
The Onion is one of the things keeping me alive.
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Show threadMichael GemarMar 14
@heidilifeldman Damn.
Show threadWasabi the Black Cat 😼Mar 14

@heidilifeldman

(snark, in the vein of The Onion): I mean c'mon. They are just going to get married and beaten. Why does anyone have to pay dollars for this?

(oh god. I am horrible) 🫢

Show threadSteve GisselbrechtMar 14

@heidilifeldman

The Onion is at its best when times are worst.

Show thread🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉Mar 14
@heidilifeldman rhe Onion at it's best!
Show threadPamela Barroway – Biz EditorMar 14
@heidilifeldman omggggg 😆 ... I've been meaning to get a subscription to their print copy. Will do so posthaste!
Show threadMillardPhillmoreMar 14
@PamelaBarroway subscribed tonight. Can't wait for my first print issue. $9 a month. Worth it .
Show threadmatthew greenMar 14
@PamelaBarroway @heidilifeldman my first print edition is supposed to arrive in a week or two and i am so excited
Show threadTayFoNay, Sigh-DMar 14
@mrgtwentythree @PamelaBarroway @heidilifeldman Subscriber here, the ads are next level 😂
Show threadquixoteMar 14
@heidilifeldman This really shouldn't be funny, so why am I ROFLMAOing?
Show threadTerenceMar 14
@heidilifeldman
Lately the actual news is so surreal that it seems all The Onion need do is simply state facts.
Show threadThadMar 14

@heidilifeldman I see stuff like this and I give a low whistle and I think about Certain Comedians who whine about how they can't do edgy comedy anymore and what a bunch of lazy cowards they are.

*This* is edgy comedy. Taking incredibly dark subject matter and turning it to razor-sharp social commentary. The transgression is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDMar 14
@Thad @heidilifeldman Also, I would call this newscasting, in a country - or a world - where that art is largely dead. It may not be factual, but it informs, not misinforms or uninforms, the reader. Meta-factual, if you like.
Show threadThadMar 14

@martinvermeer Right, it's comic exaggeration to expose truth. Hegseth didn't really say that, and the audience knows he didn't really say that, but it's commentary on his misogyny and his psychopathic disregard for human rights.

With a bluntness and clarity that the mainstream press actively avoids.

Show threadxs4me2Mar 14

@heidilifeldman

When irony becomes the only truth...

Show threadRod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇨🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱☮🕊️Mar 14

@heidilifeldman 👏👏👏

Thank you Heidi,
I didn't know this media !
It gives me hope for america :)

Show threadJonChevreau 🇨🇦Mar 14
@heidilifeldman along with Kimmel and Colbert
Show threadcobaltMar 14
@heidilifeldman One of the best things I did starting 2 years ago—subscribe to print of the Onion and get terrific mail once a month. It’s more pages than long ago and even some in color. The “ads” make you laugh out loud. I decided anything that delivers a hearty laugh is worth supporting.
Show threadlin11cMar 14
@heidilifeldman
Onion headlines now sometimes are actually more accurate than the "real" headlines. 😆
Show threadFjord In ProgressMar 14

@heidilifeldman @xgranade Ahhhh. Dark humour. So we can laugh in the faces of oppression, horror, and death.

They hate it when we laugh at them.

Show threadDan, the US is the threat!Mar 14
@heidilifeldman Pete says the girls would have been safer with his pedo friends!